Thanks all! I love these suggestions and am taking notes for now and later.

Kathleen'smum...Does the iPad read *anything* out loud to her or is this just stuff that she's writing herself. It would be nice to have something that would, say, read any ebook he could get from the library and have the words/pictures right in front of him, rather than relying on me being free to read it to him or rely on audiobooks only (which he doesn't like anyway).